Car-door fastener



E w. KANE.

CAR DOOR FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.21, 1920.

Patented Dec. 14, 1920.

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II4IIIIIIIIIIIII4 IN NTOI? Wed/2B1 m UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER KANE, 0F SARNIA, ONTARIO, CANADA.

CAR-DOOR FASTENER.

T 0 all whom it may concern: y

Be it known that I, VALTER Lama-a sub-' ject of the King of Great Britain, and resi-' dent of Sarnia, in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, have invented cer-. tain new and useful Improvements in Car- Door Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to car door described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims. reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, and in which,

Figure l is a fragmentary side elevational view of a car. the car door of which is equipped with-a car fastener constituting the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a bottom plan of the car fastener;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary transverse vertical sectional view of the car door and 'car fastener and associated structure on line 33;

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on line 4-4 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of one of the brackets; and

Fig. 6 is a detail perspective locking hook.

view of the Referring to the drawings, it will be seen that the invention contemplates. a car such as a box car F which is provided with.a sliding door D suitably suspended by a conventional hanger or the like, designated diagrammatically at cl in Fig. 3.

The car fastener which constitutes the present invention includes a plurality of locking strips 10, preferably constructed of elongated rectangular metal with the exposed face thereof fiat as designated at [0.

- The strips 10 are secured, as at 11, to thecar door and have projecting below the lower end of the car door portion or extension bar. r I

In practice, in order to secure the. door D Specification of Letters Patent. Patented D 14 1920 Application filed Ai'i'gust 21, 1920.

Serial No. 405,026.

indicated at 12. The locking strips are each provided with an opening 13 iii the projecting portion 12 thereof.

I Spaced brackets let are secured to the car, as at 15, and each is-provided with rightangular extensions 16 having pivot openings 17 therein, as best seen in Fig. 5. A,locking bar 18 of flat metallic construction has its ends bent at right angles, as designated at 20, and pivotally secured to the spaced brackets 14 by means of pivot 'pins or bolts 21 which extend through suitable openings provided in the ends 20- and through the on dead center in this position and will not. be. displaced by the thrust exerted by the door although easily moved under the control of the operator to the position shown in dotted lines to release the door.

The rotatable locking bar, 18 is provided with a plurality of openings 22 adapted to be selectively registeredivith the openings of the extension 12 to provide for the securing of the door in closed position or in partly opened position.

A hook 23 shown in detail in Fig. 4, is adapted to be passed tl'iroughthe registering openings. The hook is provided with opposed openings 24, tlirough which the wire seal 25 is adapted to be passed, after the hook has been passed through the registering openings.

'tively prevents movement of the" locking strip with respect to the locking bar and thus secures the locking strip to the locking in closed position, it is only necessary to slide the door'to closed position and then rotate the locking bar 18 until-itoverlies the locking strips 12. At this time certain of the openings 22 of the locking bar are registered with the openings 13 of the projecting portion- 12 of the locking strips. hook 253- is then passed through each of the registering openings and the hook 23 is then maintained in position by means of the seal 25 which extends through the openings 24 of the projecting portion of the' The .hook 23 thus posihook. When it is desired to release or open it is desirable to do so for ventilating purposes. To effect this 1t is only necessary to slide the car door to the left of the position it occupies in Fig. 1 until the openings 12 of the locking strips register with the openings 22 of the locking bar which lie, to the left thereof. The locking strip and locking bar are then secured together as when the door is fastened in closed position.

The locking bar lies directly over and engages the outer face of' the locking strips and positively prevents any outward movement or swing of'the lower end of the door. thus resisting the action of the shifting load which might otherwise be effective to open the car door which would result in a loss of the load.

I claim:

1. In combination with a car and a car door, a plurality of locking strips secured to the door and projecting beyond the .lower end thereof, each of said strips being. provided with an opening in the projecting portion thereof, spaced brackets secured to said car, a locking bar having its ends off set at right angles to the bar and pivotally secured to the spaced brackets, said locking bar being provided with a plurality of openings adapted to be selectively registered with the openings of said locking strips, a

hook adapted to be passed through the registeringopenings and a seal cooperating with said hook.

2. In combination with a car and a car door, a plurality of locking strips secured to the door and projecting beyond the lower end thereof,,each of said strips being prodoor, a plurality of locking strips securedto the door and projecting beyond the lower end thereof, each of said strips being provided with an opening in the projecting portion thereof, spaced brackets secured to said'car, and a locking bar having its ends offset at right angles to the bar and pivotally secured to the spaced brackets, said locking bar being provided with a plurality of openings adapted to be selectively registered with the openings of said locking strips;

4. In combination with a car and a car door, a lockin strip carried by the car door and having an opening, a rotatable locking bar carried by the car and provided with a plurality of openings adapted to be selectively registered with the openings. of said strip, and means extending through said registering openings for securing said locking strip to said locking bar.

5. In a car door of the cha 'acter described, a plurality of locking strips adapted to be secured to the car door, spaced' ibrackets adapted to be secured to the car,

and a locking bar adapted to have its ends inturned at rightangles' and pivoted to the spaced orackets" whereby the locking bar may be rotated into engagement with the looking strips to secure the door or may be rotated out of engagement with the strips to release the door.

WALTER KANE. 

